Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing.
kandoh@reddthat.com 5 months ago
I’m going to skip it. I don’t want to risk buying an counterfeit eclipse glasses and blinding myself 😬
I was camping for the last eclipse. Didn’t make it north enough for totality, but fairly close. Seeing the little wedge of sun filtered and projected hundreds of times through the trees was pretty awesome- and in a way more interesting than looking at directly with the special glasses.
Even if you don’t look up , try to go out and enjoy it.
That’s how I viewed 2017! Went outside on my lunch break to watch the bananas on the sidewalk while everyone around me went about seemingly totally unaware of what was going on right above and below them
Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
You don’t need glasses during totality, if you happen to be in its path. If you’re not, actully looking at the sun is the least interesting part of a pretty eh event, anyway.